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Highlights of the Winter Sky

Explanation: What's up in the sky this winter? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth's northern hemisphere. Viewed as a clock face centered at the bottom, early winter sky events fan out toward the left, while late winter events are projected toward the right. Objects relatively close to Earth are illustrated, in general, as nearer to the cartoon figure with the telescope at the bottom center -- although almost everything pictured can be seen without a telescope. Highlights of this winter's sky include the Geminids meteor shower peaking this week, the constellation of Orion becoming notable in the evening sky, and many planets being visible before sunrise in February. As true in every season, the International Space Station (ISS) can be sometimes be found drifting across your sky if you know just when and where to look.

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Hey APOD, unless you are a "Flat Earther" how about a summer one for the other 50% of the world...

I find it difficult to process the information presented in this format. It seems out of order.

I don't see the total Lunar eclipse on 31st January 2018.

Tunç Tezel

Where the 31 Januar Eclipse gone to?
Although not visible to me from Israel but the final Penumbral phase. it is a MUST be on such a list.

anyway,
does someone know if the moon will be even more red than usual when it rises in the Penumbral phase???

Gadi

It looks like the Southern hemisphere viewpoint but Gemini is out of place? Should be Taurus, Orion, Gemini then Cancer when looking at the Southern hemisphere Northern Sky going from from West to East

Really cool graphic.

What's up with "Merkur in the Morning Sky"? Everything else in the picture seems to be in English; why is this one in German?

Shouldn't Taurus be facing Orion, not sneaking up on his back?

I'm a fan of this format and would love to see more of these. It's easy to read and see when certain events will play out. What would be even better is a dynamic app that will present this info by know where it is and be relevant to that position (so the folks at the bottom of the world would also get their views.)

cstraitt wrote:Shouldn't Taurus be facing Orion, not sneaking up on his back?

It's confusing, but I think this isn't a graphical map of the sky, but it is a time drawing, portraying time. Like APOD said it is a clock. Taurus is high above the word December, which means it is high in the sky, or rising in the East, whatever. During the month of January it is Orion in the same position, and Taurus is off the screen to the right. In the month of February, Cancer and Gemini which appear to be taken combined, are in the same position, when Orion has moved off to the right.

Interesting depiction... but a list might be easier, if not more creative....

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